Bohoniki
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Bohoniki is a village in the Podlasie Voivodeship, Poland, at , close to the border with Belarus. It was primarily a Tatar settlement.
Today still a few families in the village are Tatar and Muslim. The village used to have more than 3000 residents, however it has only 250 residents currently. Most of the residents are older generation. Young residents have moved to big cities or other countries for better financial resources. Although residents don't speak their original Turkish-Tatar origin language, they have very close Turkish-Tatar traditions.
Sites of interest in the village include wooden mosque and a Muslim cemetery.
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